Is it possible to make a thermoelectric nanomaterials which has figure of merit=100 even if the the material is ballistic and the Manybody localization transition parameter is large.
Hello Hari :
Do you wanted to say FOM = 1.00 ?
is you material a insulator, semiconductor , degenerated semiconductor , or metal ?
Regards !
The FOM is a measure for the efficiency, not equal the efficiency. If the FOM is infinitely, the efficiency corresponds to the Carnot-efficiency. In principly, high FOM numbers are possible, because FOM=100 doesn't mean 100%. Practically see the answer of H. Pandey. Furthermore, in the case of ballistic transport the conductivity is high but the thermal conductivity too, because there is no backscattering of electrons, e.g. the ratio is 0/0 and therefore undetermined. The maximum you can reach, is the Carnot-efficiency what depends from the temperature difference only.
Thanks Rudiger. a material can be thermally ballistic and simulteniously can have resides electrically very far away the many body localization transition in such a way that there ratio could be very large.
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